2987 users. Serving >100 pop connections per minute, plus web, Samba &
Appletalk. Now what were all those magazines saying about Linux not being
scalable?
ramon wrote:
> You have more than 2000 users on one machine? Holy Shit! That's a lot.
>
> On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Dana Canfield wrote:
>
> > My bad. I had a few duplicate usernames that had slipped in. When I
> > removed
> > those, everything worked fine.
> >
> > It would be nice if it would have printed a warning rather than just
> > hanging, though (in fact,
> > it would be nice if vipw printed a warning about duplicate usernames,
> > too...).
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > James Youngman wrote:
> >
> > > >>>>> "dc" == Dana Canfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > dc> I tried doing 2000 users, then adding 500 more and running
> > > dc> pwconv again. That didn't work. I'll try splitting it up and
> > > dc> doing just 2000 at a time, then merging the shadowed files. Is
> > > dc> that safe?
> > >
> > > Yes, except for the fact that the users in the snipped-out half of the
> > > password file will not be able to log in while this is happening, and
> > > those that are already logged in may get confusing behaviour from
> > > programs while they temporarily don't exist in the password file.
> > >
> > > Doing this in single-user mode may be the safest alternative, but
> > > don't forget to use "open" to open a root shell on another spare VC if
> > > you do do this in single-user mode, so that you can recover if the
> > > passwd file gets hosed for whatever reason. Of course, starting by
> > > backing up the password file is presumably something you've already
> > > done.
> > >
> > > I do wonder what pwconv is doing. What does strace(1) say if you run
> > > it on the hanging/running executable? Is it waiting for a syscall to
> > > complete or is it just in some kind of infinite loop?
> > >
> > > dc> James Youngman wrote:
> > >
> > > >> >>>>> "dc" == Dana Canfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > >>
> > > dc> Under Redhat 5.1 pwconv stops working with any more than about
> > > dc> 2500 users. I need to convert a passwd file with about 4000
> > > dc> users. Any ideas?
> > > >>
> > > >> How about doing it in two halves?
> >
> >
> >
> >
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